Fractionalization and reform: a framework of political collaboration with application to Lebanon

Mounir Mahmalat () and Declan Curran
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Mounir Mahmalat: Dublin City University

Economics of Governance, 2020, vol. 21, issue 2, No 4, 187-214

Abstract: Abstract How does fractionalization affect political collaboration on reform? We develop a theory to explain observable variation in legislative output over time and policy areas. We show how the properties of a reform project determine the extent to which fractionalization affects political collaboration on reform. We apply our framework to the case of Lebanon and present mixed-methods evidence based on a novel comprehensive dataset of legislative activity and 32 interviews with parliamentarians, ex-ministers, and other high ranking officials. Our findings contribute to explaining ambiguous evidence in the literature on the political economy of reform.

Keywords: Reform; Political collaboration; Policymaking; Fractionalization; Lebanon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D78 K00 P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s10101-020-00237-4

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